The Tombley's are Geek's

The last couple of weeks have demonstrated some interesting things about our family. First, we had to make a last minute run to the bookstore so that my son, Micah, could get the book in a series he just finished. Secondly, we watched an MIT lecture in physics for family entertainment. You could actually hear us SHHH each other while listening and making guesses on the next iteration of a formula. Josh says we are really only geek wanna-bees because we really wish we understood it all.

Hail to Chucky Cheese

Tonight I took my three youngest kids to Chuck e Cheese. I haven't been there in a long time. Well we enter the chaos and I suddenly realize how old I am. While I am sitting there I am having all these strange thoughts.

1. No wonder so many kids have ADD. This is like an incubator for hyperactivity.
2. This is like a pre-school disco-tec.
3. I think I see two adults at the one game that my be need gamblers anonymous.
4. Someone texted me and asked if was crowded and I replied that there were as many people as left Egypt with Moses.
5. Then I started a long line of obnoxious texts to my friends drawing correlations between Chuck e Cheese and life in the desert. For example: We were under the cloud of neon to comfort us. Prophet Chuckee would come out and lead the way with his red shirt levite employees helping us make our offerings at the automated alters. Golden Calfs where being built when Chuckee didn't come out in time for the kids to be pacified.
6. This is truly cheap fun, not inexpensive, but shallow.
7. The animals that sing are as scary as the beast in the book of revelation and they only sing songs from the 80's.
8. While I went to the bathroom, Chuck ee started singing "Taking Care of Business" from the stage.

Ground Hog Day on Crack

I just saw Vantage Point. It was an action packed movie and kept me on the edge of my sit. It was an unusual way to film a movie, but an interesting way to tell a story. It lived up to its name.

But I do agree that it is like Ground Hog Day on Crack... good call Baliko.

Time with the Trinity

I continue to struggle finding the full 10 hours that I would like in the prayer room. But I have really enjoyed the time in there. Recently I have been beginning my time standing before the LORD by reading then praying Hebrews 1:1-3. I can't seem to get away from my fascination with these verses and what they reveal about the supremecy of Christ.

I think I understand the Trinity more than ever. What once were good words about Jesus now have a depth of meaning to them. Jesus is the "radiance of the glory of God." I often thought this just meant that Jesus "glowed" like God. But it is joined with Jesus' creating the universe and holding everything together by his command. Jesus, before incarnation, doesn't just glow like God. He is the glow. He is the Light of God, the Word of God. The word radiance should be capitalized "R"adiance,denoting proper divinity. It was the Radiance of God that created and sustains. It was the Radiance of God that came and it is the Radiance of God that was incarnated in the flesh, making sacrifice for us. The Radiance of God, still incarnate sits at the right hand of the father. The best way to describe him now in human terms is, the Son.

I see it in my head and in my heart so clearly. The Father and the Son are one. If you have seen the Son you have seen the Father.

That is just plain cool.